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[WP] You have been married to an immortal being ever since you were a young adult. As you've grown old and weak, they've never aged. Now, as you approach death, you must help your spouse come to terms with the fact that you will soon pass on and leave them behind.
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What evidence do we have of how pre-industrial societies viewed and treated those with "highly visible" psychiatric and neurological illnesses, such as schizophrenia, Tourette's, OCD, PTSD, dementia, et alia?
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What are the conditions that have existed in Chinese government, society, and/or culture at most points in the country's history that have allowed a myriad of religions and philosophies (Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, shamanism, folk religions, et cetera) to co-exist relatively peacefully?
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I'm commoner in early modern Europe. Aside from economic/logistical concerns, what's to keep me from packing my bags, moving to another village/city, claiming a false name, and starting a new life? What measures did the authorities take to try and stop this sort of thing from happening, if any?
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Compared to places such as Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, Africa has a panoply of languages and ethnicities, sometimes even with dozens in the same country. Why has Africa retained a diversity of such things while other places have mostly homogenized, even amongst pre-colonial peoples?
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My understanding of mercenaries in the Thirty Years' War and other such conflicts is that their ranks drew from regions and peoples from all across Europe. With these organizations being multinational affairs, how was communication handled? Did pidgin languages develop? Did they use a lingua franca?
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What were the exact influencers and specific events that caused hard-line state-planned economies such as the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China to drift towards limited capitalism and mixed economies as the century moved on?
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Do we have any records on how Egyptian commonfolk felt about Akhenaten's religious revolution? Was there genuine, true-believer conversion to Atenism at the Pharoah's behest, or did most people tend to resist the change?
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What was daily life like for common folk living in the territories administered by Catholic holy orders such as the Teutonic Knights and Knights Hospitaller? Were there any significant differences between the life of a peasant living in a secular monarchy and one living in a "theocracy" like those?
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